D. said:
I recently upgraded to a " newer " computer
and it came with " quick time " installed .
is quick time a program similar to
"windows media player " and do I
need it OR want it ?
Shenan said:
Now is a great time to point you to one of the easiest ways to find
information on problems you may be having and solutions others have
found:
Search using Google!
http://www.google.com/
(How-to:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/help/basics.html )
For example - using your words...
http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+quick+time
You would quickly realize "quick time" is "quicktime". You would
also find sites like:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickTime
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/Q/QuickTime.html
http://kb.iu.edu/data/affs.html
And as for your need for it - don't know. I don't use your
computer. I - as a standard - install the following web plugins:
- Adobe Flash Player
- Adobe Reader
- Adobe Shockwave Player
- Apple QuickTime
- Real Alternative (in place of RealPlayer)
Various web pages people might visit might need one or more of
those more common plugins/players.
D. said:
i'm sorry i asked .
what i was not looking for was
a condescending reply from YOU !!!
Shenan said:
Condescending?
I pointed out not only the complete answer to your query but how
you could find it on your own in the future. I cannot fathom how
you would find that condescending in the least.
Perhaps it was 'more than you asked for' - but you only stop
learning when your dead.
Please - come back and analyze it - I am curious just was
condescending (in your opinion) about my response?
If I were to analyze it, I would see the following:
First - I point out in a friendly manner how to use Google in the
future. I give the main page and the *help* page Google setup to
further the undersdtanding of how to compose a good search term.
Next - I point out I could use your own words from your post to
find the answer you were seeking. This was to demonstrate that you
don't have to have any special knowledge of a particular subject
when starting your search - and you are likely to find what you
need by using the same terms you would use to *ask* the question.
I also point out that one of the first thing you would likely
notice in your search (because searches often have to be modified
to get more precise results) is that your splitting of the words
"quick" and "time" was not likely what you are looking for - as the
hits from the search show the words are put together - to form a
single word "quicktime".
Then I gave you several of the links from the search that would
definitely explain in decently easy to understand terms what it was
you were asking - what is quicktime.
You also asked if you needed/wanted it. I answered that the only
way someone really could given they do not know you or your needs
and the choice they are trying to make is quite benign... I pointed
out that I didn't know how you used your computer or if you would
need quicktime. I then pointed out that *I* personally installed a
few plugins on all computers I setup - since it was possible the
users of said computer might need one or more of them at any gven
point.
But that's my analyzation of it - I am more interested in yours and
how it became condescending?
D. said:
I apologize for that reply ,
I had a bad moment .
D.
I accept your apology, of course.
However - that does not curb my curiosity, as such. I'm always learning -
and if I can use your reaction to my response to learn something about how
to reply to people in general - I would sure like to do that. ;-)
You thanked others for practically the same answer - in one case, moments
later - and yet had responded to my answer as if I had spat on you and
called you an array of horrible things for asking your question. Thus - why
my curiosity remains - something triggered that response whether or not you
were having a bad moment.
If this was a verbal interaction - I could see a tone/inflection causing
such a reaction. If this was a face-to-face conversation, perhaps some body
language could be interpretted incorrectly. This was pure text. No smiley
faces, no sarcastic remarks that I see/intended - just a straight forward
leading learning response showing someone not only the answer they sought -
but how they could come to that answer on their own in the future.
What triggered your response in your mind?
Did you only read the first part and decided I was just chastising you for
not searching yourself somehow? Was it in my pointing out what you would
discover about how you split the words "quick" and "time" and they were not
actually split in the meaning you were looking for? Was it my giving links
instead of the content of those links in my response? Was it my pointing
out what I would install on computers later in the response?
Something else bothered me - the supposed inflection you put on "YOU" in
your original response - as if I had wronged you in the past and was back
again - doing more of the same. Have I? Or am I reading more into the all
uppercase lettering than is there - given the emotional response such a
reply is surely to cause within myself?
I truly wish to understand and you are the only one with the insight into
what triggered the response you gave originally.
